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We Need To Talk About Money
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Assumptions
  • Jesus Liked to Talk About Money
  • John Wesley Talked About Money
  • Tom is NOT a Blood Sucking Leach
  • You know things

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Why Did You Come Today?
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Goals
  • Discuss Foundational Aspects of Financial
    Stewardship
  • Discuss Factors That Influence Stewardship in the
    Local Church
  • Share Practical Skills Related to Stewardship
    Ministry

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Why Is This Important?
  • 1. The Opportunity

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Why Is This Important?
  • The Requirement

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Why Is This Important?
  • 3. The Responsibility

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Why Is This Important?
  • 4. The Relationship Between Scarcity and Conflict

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Why Is This Important?
  • 5. The Economy

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  • Passing the Plate
  • Why American Christians Don't Give Away More
    Money
  • Authors Christian Smith,
  • Michael O. Emerson, and Patricia Snell

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Fact 1
  • At least one out of five American Christians 20
    percent of all U.S. Christians gives literally
    nothing to church, para-church, or nonreligious
    charities.

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Higher income earning American Christianslike
Americans generally--give little to no more money
as a of household income than lower earning
Christians.
Fact 4
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Household Income Categories
Percent of household income given to religious
organizations by income level, all Americans.
(Source Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer
Expenditure Survey, 2000.)
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Fact 5
  • The vast majority of the money that American
    Christians do give to religion is spent in and
    for their own local communities of faith little
    is spent on missions, development, and poverty
    relief outside of local congregations,
    particularly outside the United States, in ways
    that benefit people other than the givers
    themselves

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Fact 6
  • Despite a massive growth of real per capita
    income over the twentieth century, the average
    percentage share of income given by American
    Christians not only did not grow in proportion
    but actually declined slightly during this time
    period.

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Giving per church member as a percent of income
in 11 Protestant denominations, and U.S. per
capita inflation-adjusted income 1921-2003. The
11 denominations analyzed are American Baptist
(Northern), Christian Church (Disciples of
Christ), Church of the Brethren, the Episcopal
Church, Evangelical America, Presbyterian Church
U.S.A., Reformed Church in America, Southern
Baptist Convention, United Church of Christ (and
subsidiaries that merged), and United Methodist
Church (and subsidiaries that merged). Source
Passing the Plate, pg. 49.
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  • Does it not seem (and yet this cannot be) that
    Christianity, true, scriptural Christianity, has
    a tendency, in process of time, to undermine and
    destroy itself? For wherever true Christianity
    spreads, it must cause diligence and frugality,
    which, in the natural course of things, must
    beget riches. And riches naturally beget pride,
    love of the world, and every temper that is
    destructive of Christianity.
  • John Wesley
  • Causes of the Inefficacy of Christianity

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Questions
  • What are some important factors that encourage
    giving in the Local Church?
  • 2. In what ways has your approach to Stewardship
    changed over the last 10 years?

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  • Yield and Capacity

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Foundations for Stewardship
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Question
  • What characteristics have you found to be
    essential for a positive stewardship environment
    in the congregation?

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It All Starts with the Pastor
  • Tithing The Most Transforming Spiritual Practice
    of My Life
  • OR
  • My Wife Made Me Do It

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  • Realize it is all Gods
  • Ac 436 Barnabas (which means Son of
    Encouragement), sold a field he owned and brought
    the money and put it at the apostles feet.
  • Be content
  • 1Ti 68 But if we have food and clothing, we will
    be content with that.

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  • Meet your basic needs
  • 1Ti 58 If anyone does not provide for his
    relatives, and especially for his immediate
    family, he has denied the faith and is worse than
    an unbeliever.

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  • Bring order to your financial world
  • Ex 3426 Bring the best of the firstfruits of
    your soil to the house of the LORD your God.
  • 5. Find significance
  • Gal 610 Therefore, as we have opportunity, let
    us do good to all people, especially to those who
    belong to the family of believers.

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God Uses Desperation
  • FUMC 1997 One More Week Like This
  • Feeling Prophetic

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Say It
  • Tithing is an organizing principle for personal
    finances
  • Truth It Is Money We Have and Peace We Lack
  • Enjoy those sermons
  • Engage Volunteers
  • You Choose Who You Lose

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Cast a Compelling Vision
  • Casting Vision by Accident
  • An Orphanage in Nicaragua
  • Mission Statements
  • Develop Strategies for the Mission for Broad
    Buy-in
  • Buy In Now Investment Later

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Issue Invitations to Significance
  • Casting Vision on Purpose
  • The Millennial Offering
  • The Power of a Preferred Future
  • The Power of the BHAG

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Get Help When You Need It
  • Relocation
  • Calling in the Calvary should we use a
    consultant?
  • The week after 9/11

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Engage Ministry Partners
  • Congregation
  • Individuals Who Need Your Help
  • Partner Churches
  • The Extended Church at Christmas

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Engage Ministry Partners
  • The Corporate Community

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Engage Ministry Partners
  • The Extended Church at Christmas
  • Its Not Your Birthday
  • Mercy Hospital
  • Connections for Hope
  • We get to do this if we meet budget

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Have Courage
  • Phase 2
  • Stewardship Conversation at a New Level
  • Because we had to

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Stewardship Essentials
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Practical Skills to Take Home
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Learning to Ask
  • What to Say?
  • How to Say It?
  • What to Expect?
  • Handling Rejection
  • Handling Success
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